Mexico’s Anti-Abortion Backlash Mexico’s Anti-Abortion Backlash
In just two years, half the country’s states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.
Jan 4, 2012 / Feature / Mary Cuddehe
Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?
Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mikhail S. Gorbachev
The Soviet Union’s Afterlife The Soviet Union’s Afterlife
Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen
Back in the USSR Back in the USSR
Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.
Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Vadim Nikitin
The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011 The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011
This holiday season, we celebrate the most inspiring activists, organizations and politicians who are fighting for the 99 percent.
Dec 22, 2011 / Feature / John Nichols
Occupy the Safety Net Occupy the Safety Net
Republicans in Congress are quietly killing the provisions of Obama’s stimulus act that have kept millions out of poverty.
Dec 15, 2011 / Feature / Betsy Reed
Food Stamps: The Safety Net That Deserves Its Name Food Stamps: The Safety Net That Deserves Its Name
For all its flaws, the food stamp program helps one in seven Americans put food on the table.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner
Unemployment Insurance Under the Knife Unemployment Insurance Under the Knife
With 5.7 million Americans out of work six months or more, benefits for the unemployed are woefully inadequate—and even so, the GOP would cut them.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Kate Kahan and George Wentworth
The Making of the 99% The Making of the 99%
With the Occupy movement, what started as a diffuse protest against economic injustice became a vast experiment in class building.
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich
The End of Welfare as I Knew It The End of Welfare as I Knew It
“When Clinton signed Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, I knew single mothers like me would suffer. Fifteen years later, millions have been kicked off the welfare rolls....
Dec 14, 2011 / Feature / Diana Spatz